Were all the others dead, then? Not a sound in the place, only that indescribable stirring of something in the solid earth under his feet.

When Adam's crook-stick turned over the brown earth to make it fertile, he began the industry of the world.

And then he told them the story of one who had lived in the old time; and in that air, which seemed to be made of sunshine, and amid all those stately palaces, he described to them the little earth which they had left behindthe skies that were covered with clouds, and the ways that were so rough and stony, and the cruelty of the oppressor, and the cries of those that were oppressed.

" Shalah trailed like a bloodhound, following the hoof-marks out of the valley meadow to a ridge of sparse cedars where they showed clear on the bare earth, and then to a thicker covert where they were hidden among strong grasses.

Straightway, the creature disappeared, with a clatter of loose earth and stones.

The camp is liable to be pitched and the men required to sleep in malarious spots, or on the damp earth, or over a wet subsoil, exposed to noisome and dangerous exhalations from which disease may arise.

When spring with its moist verdure and frail, sweet-smelling flowers had gone; when the great plain began to turn to a rusty-brown colour, and the dry hard earth was full of cracks, and the days grew longer and the heat greater, there came an appearance of water that quivered and glittered and danced before his wondering sight, and would lead him miles from home every day in his vain efforts to find out what it was.

On a certain morning the half-eaten carcass lay at the foot of the black rock, and in moist earth by the rill of the spring, the foot-pads of a cougar, puma, mountain lion, or whatever the beast is rightly called.

If tending loom was the road which led to the power and the glory, what need to complain that itthe mere roadwas but dull earth?

And now he heard, faint and afar, a sound of voices, hands reached down and drew him up up to good, firm earth, and there, face down among the grass, he lay awhile, content only to live and breathe.

It may be described as composed of wet, spongy black earth, held together by decayed vegetables.

The radiance of green that lit the frozen earth, grew steadily brighter.

From the parched earth and every living thing thereon went up the passionate cry for water.

For Muckle John it was beyond doubt; not two men in the broad earth had that ungainly bend of neck.

Enough for us to know that the kindly earth received his body again into her bosom, and that the true Mosesthe immortal spirit of the man returned to God who created him, and inspired him, and sustained him to be perhaps the greatest mansave One who was more than manwho ever trod this earth.

I think, my boy, death has two sides to it, One sunny, and one dark; as this round earth Is every day half sunny and half dark.

Externals sufficed just now; the fragrant still forests, the pulse-stirring sunshine, the warm, fruitful earth below and the blue sky above.

Presently there came the padding sound of naked feet upon the hard-baked earth, and a dark figure emerged from an inner kitchen.

This sweet soul purified by all its pain, For on this day, so fair a morn, it seemed A heavenly peace sunk down to this sad earth From gate ajar, the bright and pearly gate Swung widely open for an angel guest.

The venerable Brahmin here concluded his narrative, and we both remained thoughtful and silent for some time; he, apparently absorbed in the recollections of his eventful life; and I, partly in the reflections awakened by his story, and partly in the intense interest of revisiting my native earth, and beholding once more all who were dear to me.

The sandy earth was also a great nuisance in the region between Khan Yunus and Shellal, but between Deir el Belah and our Gaza front, excepting on the belt near the sea which was composed of hillocks of sand precisely similar to the Sinai Desert, the earth was firmer and yielded less to the grinding action of wheels.

"Doth she wear ever aa green veil, Giles?" "Verily, lord, and with a most sweet grace" "And her shoes" "Her shoes, tall brother, O methinks her sweet shoe doth kiss the earth so sweet and light poor earth must needs love and languish as doth poor Giles!

In general, the country was as I have described iteither volcanic or overlaid with fertile earth.

would I were steadfast as thou art Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores.

The details of this vagrancy are best learned in his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, where we meet not simply the facts of his life, but also the confusion of dreams and fancies in the midst of which he wandered like a man lost on the mountains, with storm clouds under his feet hiding the familiar earth.